Docker Swarm + Phoenix Channels

@Aetherus wrote:

Yet another question: we know that Node.connect/1 accepts an atom that is the node name to connect to. In an orchestrated environment, container IP addresses tend to change during reboots, so there will be indefinitely many atoms created in the service discovery procedures, and atoms are not garbage collected. Is this a potential memory leak? Or just because reboots are relatively rare cases, this memory leak can be neglected?

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